A theory to end theories For the first time in the history of physics we therefore have a framework with the capacity to explain every fundamental feature upon which the universe is constructed.

Similarly, if we did finally have the unified theory, if we did finally have the deep laws of the universe in hand, that in a very real sense would also be a beginning. It would be the beginning ...

In his final lecture entitled 'The Origin of the Universe 2', Professor Bernard Lovell considers the alternative theory which science can offer on the beginning of the universe. His exploration of ...

Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Big Bang Poured Out "Liquid" Universe, Atom Smasher Hints ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe, first observed in 1998, remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

A combination of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and ... history of our understanding of the universe, starting with Nicolaus Copernicus, who first suggested a sun-centered universe ...

Others then used his theory to build models of an expanding universe. This was the beginning of today’s standard cosmological model, which describes a universe that began in the hot, dense ...

Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain without it. The first is that Einstein’s general theory of relativity famously makes mass ...